Tyson Hartle said he was on the 8th hole with two friends when he heard the plane take off from nearby Sacamento Executive Airport.

"We heard it taking off. You heard the engine die, sputter," said Hartle.

Hartle said the single-engine plane then swung around as if the pilot was trying to return to the airport.

"I think he banked left to avoid landing in the houses, came down kind of sideways through the trees, ended upside down on the ground," said Hartle.

As Hartle and the other golfers ran to the plane, flumes filled the air.

"We were kind of scared, because you could just smell the fuel," said Nestor Saducos.

Pieces of metal hung in the trees and the propeller had broken off from the plane and was sticking in the ground. The fuselage was flipped over with the wings torn off.

The two men on board were bloodied and shaken up.

They went to the hospital with what authorities described as non-life-threatening injuries.

According to the Federal Aviation's Administration's database, the plane is registered to an owner in Antelope.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.

Police credited the golfers' quick response with helping to save the mens lives.

"Some people have it in them to just go and try to save another person's life. And that's what they did today. I think they were really heroic, and they stepped up to make this happen," said Sgt. Andrew Pettit.

The golfers tried to play out their game, but said all the rescue vehicles on the course made that impossible.

The golf course's general manager said small planes from the airport fly over the greens all the time.

"We enjoy the airport as our neighbors and haven't had any problems really in the past," said Andrew Wilson.

Wilson said the first nine holes of the course will be closed Saturday, as federal investigators arrive to inspect the wreckage.

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